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Here’s a little challenge for you. How would you design a responsive interface for a custom car configurator? The customer should be able to adjust colors, wheels, exterior details, interior details and perhaps accessories — on small and large screens. Doesn’t sound that difficult, does it? In fact, we have all seen such interfaces before. Essentially, they are just a combination of some navigation, iconography, buttons, accordions and a real-time 3D preview.

If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need is AJAX (also known as XHR). A behind-the-scenes request is sent to the server, and returning data to your form. Whenever you see a loader animation after you have made some action on the page, it’s probably an AJAX request being submitted to the server.

(This is a sponsored post). Testing is a fundamental part of the UX designer’s job and a core part of the overall UX design process. Testing provides the inspiration, guidance and validation that product teams need in order to design great products. That’s why the most effective teams make testing a habit.
Usability testing involves observing users as they use a product. It helps you find where users struggle and what they like.

Instead of preparing for a global cataclysm, learning about water storage and building bunkers, they’re constantly on the lookout for ways they can proof their marketing for, or get ahead of, inevitable and dramatic changes to the marketing landscape.

Frequent and mysterious algorithm changes. New ad platform features. Emerging trends, dying fads. Amidst all this, only marketers who understand these new conditions — then adapt and innovate within them — will see exponential returns.

At Unbounce, we’ve been really lucky to have a network of expert marketers around to ask about the always-changing marketing landscape. We can turn to forward-thinking strategists like Mirum’s Mitch Joel, Moz’s Rand Fishkin, Love Your Customer’s Claire Suellentrop, and even our in-house-experts, like Alexa Hubley, Carl Schmidt and CRO Michael Aagaard. We ask them things like:

What does the ever-increasing prominence of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning mean for marketers and their jobs?

Are “tried-and-true” frameworks like the buyer persona still relevant, or are there new ways of digging deeper to speak more closely to my target market?

Have traditional SEO tactics become completely outdated? Why are the most successful SEOs now becoming well versed in conversion rate optimization?

How can you use data to inform your marketing without letting personal biases get in the way?

Should marketing stop after the conversion? (Or is customer marketing where it’s at?)

These are questions we’ve seen tossed around recently in our newsfeeds and at conferences.

So we set out to help answer them.

In Call to Action Magazine, we aim to address these questions and dig into some of the recommendations the experts in our network have shared — those that will help you create exceptional marketing no matter what new algorithm comes along.

So, what do you say? Do you want to get lost in the rubble… or do you want to learn how you can future-proof your marketing?

Ready to Future-Proof Your Marketing?

Call to Action Magazine is filled with recommendations from marketing experts to help your marketing thrive — no matter what algorithm gets changed tomorrow.

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There’s a lot of hype about WebAssembly in JavaScript circles today. People talk about how blazingly fast it is, and how it’s going to revolutionize web development. But most conversations don’t go into the details of why it’s fast. In this article, I want to help you understand what exactly it is about WebAssembly that makes it fast.
But first, what is it? WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser.

To anyone who’s exclusively done business online, I cannot stress enough how beneficial it is to sell to humans, face-to-face. First of all, in person, you can learn what people are really looking for — and you can make suggestions accordingly. Instead of sifting through data, conducting endless customer surveys, and “guessing,” running a brick-and-mortar shop is a non-stop customer survey experience. The beauty comes when your business operates both online and offline. Your learnings from upselling and cross-selling in person can turn your online business from nice supplemental income to your bread-and-butter! Check out this infographic from Quicksprout to…

If you’re reading this post, you already know how CRO (“conversion rate optimization”) can help you increase revenues and create better customer experiences. The problem now is: how do you decide what to test? Successful testing is almost always strategic in nature. You can’t just fire up your testing tool, plug in a couple of page variations and expect to meet your business goals – at least not consistently. Instead, you need to plan out a long-term strategy, prioritize tests based on business goals, and develop an execution timeline. This, in essence, is the testing roadmap. And when done right,…

It’s strange. Content writing as a tool for user acquisition and audience building has moved forward so rapidly over the last few years. People are more aware than ever that content, for many businesses, is the single most cost-effective way to project your brand to the world and amplify it. How is it then, that despite all these advancements, we still write case studies with ZERO regard for telling an engaging, powerful story? I’m going to show you a way to get the full value from a case study — something that stretches much further than a tool to close…

The two charts pictured below changed the way I think about thinking. Rebproduced from a classic 1996 psychology study, the story behind these charts is a vivid illustration that the way we humans feel in the moment as we experience the world can be very different from how we feel when we think back on those experiences later. Understanding the difference between experience and memory — and the ways they are related — can make us more sophisticated experience designers.

If you’re getting a lot of traffic to your site but struggling with converting that traffic into a lead or customer, don’t get frustrated. According to Bryan Eisenberg, every website has a problem with conversions. Don’t get locked into seeing conversion rates as a “problem.” Instead, look at your conversion rates as an opportunity, and treat conversion rate optimization as an ongoing process that you’re constantly improving. It’s not a process that you need invest a lot of money in; hiring an agency isn’t always necessary. You also don’t have to study for months (or years) on end to master…